(A) Permits.
(1) There shall be two classes of sanitary sewer permits:
(a) For service to residential establishments; and
(b) For service to commercial and industrial establishments. The person(s) requesting permits shall be required to furnish information about all waste producing activities and wastewater characteristics. The permit request shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Executive Director or his or her designee. Sanitary sewer collection fees shall be paid to the JSA at the time the permit is issued.
(2) Users shall promptly notify the JSA in advance of any introduction of wastewater constituents or any substantial change in the volume or character of the wastewater constituents being introduced into the POTW. The Executive Director or his or her designee may deny or condition the new introduction or change in discharge based on the information submitted in the notification or additional information as may be requested.
(3) No person(s) shall uncover, plug or make any connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without a sanitary sewer permit.
(B) Capping and sealing of property service connections. JSA shall issue a disconnect permit for the demolition of a building only after the applicant signs a statement certifying that each sewer service connection to the property has been or shall be capped or plugged with a water seal at the easement or street right-of-way line prior to the completion of the demolition project.
(C) Prohibited connections.
(1) No person shall make connections of roof downspouts, basement wall seepage or floor seepage, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, yard drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain, which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a sanitary sewer. Any such connections which already exist on the effective date of this subchapter shall be completely and permanently disconnected within 60 days of the effective date of this subchapter. The owner(s) of any building sewers having such connections, leaks or defects shall bear all costs incidental to removal of such sources. Pipes, sumps and pumps for such sources of ground and surface water shall be separate from wastewater facilities. Removal of such sources of water without presence of separate facilities shall be evidence of drainage to the public sanitary sewer system.
(2) No person shall install or cause to be installed, any sewer service connection, building sewer or make any service connection to any public sewer without a plumbing permit secured from the State Plumbing Program Director, State Department for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection and the construction shall conform to the requirements of the State Plumbing Law and Code, Rules and Regulations.
(3) The construction shall also conform to this subchapter.
(D) Easement restrictions. No party shall place permanent building structures on JSA easements. Any non-permanent building structure (i.e., fences, portable storage buildings and the like) or vegetation (i.e., trees, shrubs, flower beds and the like) placed on JSA easements are placed on said easement at the risk of the property owner. Any damage to such structures or vegetation due to sewer failure, sewer repair work or other sewer related problems are not the responsibility of the JSA. Replacement costs are the responsibility of the property owner.
(E) Design and installation.
(1) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, courtyard or driveway. In such case, the sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer, but the JSA does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any such single connection aforementioned.
(2) Existing building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the JSA; to meet all requirements of this subchapter. If additional sewer customers are added to the old building sewers, additional sewer tap fees and capacity fees shall be charged accordingly even though no new sewer tap is actually made into the JSA system. At no time shall a refund be payable as a result of a decrease in ERUs.
(3) The building sewer shall be cast iron soil pipe, ASTM A-74, latest revision, PVC (polyvinyl-chloride) sewer pipe, ASTM D-3034, latest revision, or ductile iron pipe, AWWA specification C-151 cement lined, and shall meet requirements of State plumbing code. Joints shall be as set out hereinafter. Any part of the building sewer that is located within five feet of a water service pipe shall be constructed with cast iron soil pipe or ductile iron pipe, unless the building sewer is at least one foot deeper in the ground than the water service line. Cast iron soil pipe or ductile iron pipe may be required by the JSA where the building sewer is exposed to damage or stoppage by tree roots. Cast iron soil pipe or ductile iron pipe shall be used in filled or unstable ground, in areas where the cover over the building sewer is less than three feet, or in areas where the sewer is subject to vehicular or other external loads.
(4) The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and back filling the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the local and state building and plumbing codes, the JSA’s standard specifications and other applicable rules and regulations of the JSA.
(5) All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection to the building sewer shall be borne by the owner(s). The owner(s) shall indemnify the JSA for any loss or damage to JSA facilities that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer. Repair costs shall be as established by the JSA.
(6) The owner shall ensure that all excavations for building sewer installation are adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the JSA and all owners of such public property.
(7) In a building where the sewer main crown is less than three and one-half feet below the basement floor, wastewater shall be lifted by means of a sewage pump.
(8) A neat workmanlike connection, not extending past the inner surface of the public sewer shall be made. A wye and six-inch clean-out fitting shall be installed at the property line between the public sewer and the building sewer.
(9) All building sewer lines will be installed so as to meet or exceed the most current revision of the State Plumbing Code.
(10) The owner of the premises served by a sewer shall be responsible for all maintenance, operation, cleaning of the building sewer from the building to the point of connection with the public main line sewer. Repairs and reconstruction of the building sewer from the building to a public roadway shall be the responsibility of the owner. If the building sewer is damaged under publicly owned improved surfaces, the JSA will be responsible for repair.
(F) Inspection.
(1) All holders of a sanitary sewer permit shall notify the JSA when the activity described is completed. The construction shall be inspected by JSA personnel prior to placing backfill material. The connection shall be made gas-tight and water-tight and verified by proper testing.
(2) All building sewers shall be smoke tested, at JSA discretion, through the wye branch at the public sewer connection, with public sewer tightly plugged off, after connections at both ends are made and after all pipe is properly bedded and backfilled at least to the top of the pipe and if backfill is completed, within two weeks after completion of backfill. At time of testing, any openings into the building drain inside the building shall be water trapped or plugged. Any leakage of smoke from building sewer or building drain and plumbing shall be located at test and repaired to stand repetition of smoke test without leakage. When smoke testing is completed, the temporary flow line plug shall be removed and a permanent watertight plug shall be placed in branch of test wye-branch and carefully backfilled by hand and tamped to at least six inches above the top of the branch. This test would be in addition to any testing performed by the applicable plumbing inspector.
(G) Grease, oil and sand interceptors; restaurants and other commercial users.
(1) All restaurants, food service establishments and other commercial oil and grease generators shall provide grease and/or oil interceptor when, in the opinion of the Executive Director or his or her designee, they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing floatable grease in excessive amounts, or any flammable wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients; except that such interceptor shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the JSA and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. Interceptors shall be cleaned and maintained at regular intervals to ensure proper operation. In the maintaining of these interceptors, the owner shall be responsible for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate means of the captured material and shall maintain records signed by the owner and the waste hauler with the dates and means of disposal in accordance with pumping schedules established by the JSA Pretreatment Coordinator.
(2) New restaurant construction and major renovations containing plumbing revisions shall submit a detailed drawing of the grease interceptor and complete a grease interceptor application/questionnaire. Said application shall be available from JSA upon request.
(3) The city and county building inspection offices shall not issue a permit unless the restaurant/land owner has complied with this provision.
(H) Destruction of public owned treatment works (POTW). No person(s) shall maliciously, willfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is part of the POTW.
(I) Prohibited.
(1) No person shall or cause to be installed, any sewer service connection, building sewer or make any service connection to any public sewer within the JSA district without a JSA permit and a plumbing permit secured from the State Plumbing Program Director, State Department for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection. The construction shall conform to the requirements of the State Plumbing Law and Code, Rules and Regulations as well as the requirements specified herein.
(2) No person or public corporation shall make direct connection of roof downspouts, exterior or interior foundation drains, area drains, yard drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater directly to a sanitary sewer.
(Ord. 2012-6, passed 1-28-2013)